This morning, I saw one reason why the Presidential campaign of Republican nominee John McCain may be headed for a spectacular defeat.
I was getting on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) at Exit 7 in Ludlow. For those of you not intimately familiar with Massachusetts geography, Ludlow is in western Massachusetts next to Springfield - about 50 miles east of the New York state line and 80 miles west of Boston.
At Exit 7, on the four corners surrounding the interchange, I saw perhaps a dozen McCain-Palin volunteers holding signs. Now, the next battleground state going west on I-90 from Ludlow is Ohio - some 500 miles to the west. Going east, there is the battleground state of New Hampshire, but I'm not sure how many Granite Staters we would find in Ludlow on a Saturday morning. Apart from New Hampshire, all there is going east from Ludlow is pure blue - up to and including the sea.
This seemed to me to be a pretty blatant misapplication of campaign resources ten days before the election. (They couldn't have gotten into a minivan and gone to New Hampshire?)
If we see a substantial Obama victory - or even a landslide - on November 4, this kind of mistake may be one of the reasons.
It is quite frankly shocking at how wastefully they spend their money when they're so far behind in the money race. $150k for Palin's clothes? More than $20k for her make-up over a two-week stretch? It's insane. $170k would buy tons of ads, or could buy the services of 50-60 field managers over the course of a month - and rumors abound that McCain basically has no field operation of any consequence in important battlegrounds like Missouri.
All of that is chump change compared to the millions they've spent running ads in states they've had no chance in winning, like Iowa. Their decision to leave it all on the line to win Pennsylvania, where they're down by more than 10, is also absurd - especially given the fact that they could have focused instead on keeping a hold of the Bush states and winning that way (a still difficult but not preposterous strategy, if that was where they held the line a month ago).
Seriously, it's one of the most poorly run campaigns I've ever seen, state, local or national. I'm confident I could have run a better Presidential campaign than McCain's horrid effort.
Posted by: Ryan | October 25, 2008 at 03:14 PM
It's almost as if McCain campaign doesn't really want to win.
Posted by: David Eisenthal | October 25, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Well, at least the Sarah Palin part of the John McCain campaign doesn't want to win... and both of them seem more concerned about pinning the blame on the other than they do at winning this point, given that their loss is more or less inevitable at this point.
Posted by: Ryan | October 26, 2008 at 01:56 AM
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